Hello I am in, I was in already since I watched some of you guys on last compo. Though my journey to test my newbie game development skills started quite ugly. I seriously forgot when the jam was going to happen and realized to check the site when there was only around 1 day and 20 hours on the clock.<\/p>\n
While watching Notch to use dart last time I decided to try my hands at Go, because it has become one of my favorite programming languages even though I don’t have much time to use it. So when I saw that clock I seriously started preparations. Checked that glfw3, go-gl gl and glh worked, but then I realized we still do not have good audio library for Go other than sdl-mixer. Well I hit my head to a wall and went to sauna with few of my friends.<\/p>\n
I realized there’s two options I could do. Drop Go and look for another option or take a crash course on SDL, because why to use only sdl mixer when you can use everything it has to offer. Then I remembered there is some easy to use python game library named pygame. Since then I have not slept, because I’ve been playing around with pygame features and ton of reading. The funny thing is I’ve never actually programmed with\u00a0python more than few lines to test it around and it’s just so damn simple to learn the language while reading examples of pygame.<\/p>\n
Anyway my software development toolkit is Vim and Git in Terminator in Arch Linux. Though I probably will have to do some art so, I will rely on Pinta even though it’s kind of buggy. I also have to thank the Ludum\u00a0Dare community for sfxr, because otherwise my game would be soundless! These last few hours I’ve tried to go to sleep few times, but I am just so damn exited that this will probably be 48 * 2 sleepless hours. I can’t even count that in my head anymore, but luckily listening Pantera is quite refreshing! I can always make some lovely black coffee.<\/p>","time":"April 25th, 2014 12:30 am","title":"Hello World, from a newbie!"}